The Box of Chocolates Thread (You never know what you're going to get!)

Someone should start an interesting thread. All of the current ones have run their course. (Have ran their courses?).

Someone should start an interesting thread. All of the current ones have run their course. (Have ran their courses?).

"Ran" or "have run". How the **** did you come up with "have ran"?

You know I didn't get a lot of sleep.

Yes, well, shouldn't **** yourself so much then!

About to start my 3.5 hour bumpy ass bus ride and hoping for the best but worried I shouldn't have just had coffee and ice cream

You said you were in Colombia? I guess these are the sacrifices we make in order to source the product at a good price.

Yeah Colombia. Although I typically stick to the small towns and I'm here for hiking and bird watching. Last time I did blow I was in Kansas City. I haven't even smoked any weed while in Colombia but I smoked a crap ton while in Guatemala.

I wasn't suggesting you went all the way to Colombia to get an 8 ball for personal use.

Only crops I'd be sourcing where I am are coffee, bananas, sugarcane, avocados, and passion fruit. Coca is a lowland crop.

I never deliberately type apostrophes when I type a contraction. If the autocorrect adds it, fine. But I refuse to bother to switch to another keyboard on my ipad just to add the apostrophe. IMO just as technology has killed cursive writing, I think it will eventually kill the apostrophe in contractions. Does anyone really give a **** or not grasp the meaning represented by the word dont or don't?

Hence the 4 hour bus ride, then. Really giving the whole game away here, kiddo, you'd be the worst partner in crime ever.

There are around 200 verbs in English that are called "Germanic strong verbs", and eventually-- maybe in 500 or so years, no one will be sure how to use them and we'll just say things like "springed" and "buyed".

Hence the 4 hour bus ride, then. Really giving the whole game away here, kiddo, you'd be the worst partner in crime ever.

You need to get a new keyboard app if you have to go to another page for that. On mine it's on the (long press) V key. Thought it was somewhere like that on any virtual keyboard.

I just use the keyboard that comes with the ipad. Maybe I used the wrong phrasing of different keyboard. When I am typing on the keyboard with all the letter keys, to add the apostrophe I have to hit the 123 key that switches the keyboard to the one with the number and various symbol keys, hit the ' and then it returns to the letter keys.

No, you were describing it perfectly, and the same is the case on my keyboard. But chillrob inspired me to explore, and it turns out that a long press of the period on mine has the apostrophe come up among other options, so that could be useful. Thanks, chillrob!

I just use the keyboard that comes with the ipad. Maybe I used the wrong phrasing of different keyboard. When I am typing on the keyboard with all the letter keys, to add the apostrophe I have to hit the 123 key that switches the keyboard to the one with the number and various symbol keys, hit the ' and then it returns to the letter keys.

Nice, that works for me too. Had no idea. Cheers!

Amazing. On mine it's a long press on the comma key. The period brings up quotation marks. Chillrob revolutionizes politics typing!

I'll be honest, if you put a gun to my head and asked me to explain the difference between the simple past tense and the past participle, I doubt I could. I guess I just intuitively know how to use them.

I now expect everyone to use proper punctuation here.